Vacancies at Janta Kenya

Job Description

A Stationery sales Executive is responsible for the sales of printed goods for their company.To succeed in this job, you must actively create relationships with current and prospective clients, draw up contracts, bid on large-scale and commercial print jobs, and give the overall best possible service to clients. Your day-to-day responsibilities include maintaining customer accounts, following up with former customers to ensure satisfaction or to help them reorder additional materials, drawing up presentations and proposals for jobs, and learning about new products or services available at the company.

Key Responsibilities

• Present and sell company products and services to potential clients.
• Meeting annual sales goals and targets.
• Prepare presentations, proposals and sales contracts.
• Coordinate with company staff to accomplish the work required to close sales.
• Identify and resolve client concerns.
• Follow-up for collection of payment

Skill & Experience

• Atleast 3 years of experience stationery sales Must ie exercise books. Must have experience selling in Mombasa and current or previous resident of Mombasa.
• Previous experience in stationery sales is a MUST.
• Diploma or Degree in sales and marketing.
• Good Communication Skills.

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Job Description

We are looking for a driven Production Operations Assistant to ensure efficient functioning of the plant and factory. You will report to the Head of Operations and be working closely with the Engineering, Production, Quality, and Warehousing Departments. We expect you to be attentive, organized and a reliable individual with exemplary work ethics and commitment.

Key Responsibilities

Production Controls:

•  Operation: Manning the production control room as a central point for production data
•  Documentation: Maintaining accurate records of process readings, equipment logs and production data
•  Reporting: Generating detailed reports of production metrics, downtimes, incidents and KPIs
•  Communication: Communicating effectively with managers and relevant departments

Production Processes:

•  Store Transfers: Recording transfers between the raw material warehouse and production floor
•  Manufacturing Journals: Creating manufacturing journals to account for the manufacture of (i) semi-finished goods from raw materials and (ii) then finished goods from semi-finished
•  Rejection & Scrap Management: Maintain rejected and/or scrapped stock items and their details

Spare Parts & Tools Storekeeping:

•  Operation: Ensuring availability, storage, issuance and return of spare parts and tools for the plant
•  Storage & Organization: Safely storing spare parts & tools, ensuring systematic arrangement
•  Fulfilment: Processing internal requests for spare parts & tools for operation needs
•  Requisition Processing: Initiating spare parts requisitions based on minimum inventory levels
•  Receiving: Inspecting and cataloging incoming parts & tools, ensuring accuracy in quantity and quality
•  Inventory Management: Maintaining item-wise stock cards and generating weekly stock reports
•  Documentation & Tracking: Maintaining meticulous records of transactions including issuances and returns

Skill & Experience

• Diploma
• Proven experience (at least 1-3years) of paid work
• Proficiency in the use of computer software and Microsoft Office applications
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Attention to detail to ensure accuracy
• Efficiency and speed in your working style for quick processing of paperwork
• Excellent time management skills to prioritize and manage multiple administrative tasks effectively
• Strong organizational skills to maintain an accessible documentation trail
• Teamwork and ability to collaborate with other colleagues
• Proactive mindset to raise any questions or queries if and when they arise

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Purpose

The Brand Manager position is tasked with the success of the Brands in terms Volume, Value, Equity & Growth.

The BM overall plans, develops and directs marketing efforts to increase the volume, value and performance of the brand Categories. S/he focuses on developing a brand’s profit & loss performance, image and positioning compared to current and emerging competing brands 

Context

Aspires to be tier 2 category of the Dairy Milk processors in volume, Value and Brand Equity in about 2 years by growing its branded milk products in the market place

Overview:

The BM will have a very good understanding of the Milk Processing sector in Kenya & the Region in addition to having strong creative, analytical and organizational Skills. S/he must have a good handle on consumer and market insights, multi–task including the ability to analyze market data.

Annual Growth in the volume, Value, and equity is dependent on the BM.

Development of Marketing Initiatives

In consultations with the SMD, The BM will develop, implement and execute marketing initiatives and activities, campaigns, events

Key Outputs

Overview:

The BM will have a very good understanding of the Milk Processing sector in Kenya & the Region in addition to having strong creative, analytical and organizational Skills. S/he must have a good handle on consumer and market insights, multi–task including the ability to analyze market data.

Annual Growth in KDL volume, Value, and equity is dependent on the BM.

Development of Marketing Initiatives

In consultations with the SMD, The BM will develop, implement and execute marketing initiatives and activities, campaigns, events sponsorships, etc. To be successful in their assignments the BM will fully understand the trends of the Consumer and the customer ( Trade Chain), developing key insights and call to action executions that will endear them closer to the brands as they par-take company  brands in increasing volumes & value insights

• Uncover consumer insights
• Translate brand elements into plans and go-to market strategies and activities

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze brand positioning & Consumer Insights
• Translate brand elements into Plans and go to market strategies and activities
• Lead creative development to motivate the target audience to ‘take action’
• Establish performance specs, costs, Sales estimates, etc
• Measure and report performance of All marketing campaigns and assess ROI and KPIs 
• Monitor Market Trends, research consumer markets and competitor Activities.
• Monitor product distribution Customer and consumer reaction
• Devise innovative growth strategies in volume and value

Skill & Experience

• A first degree in Commerce/Marketing or a business related subject or its equivalent.
• Masters in Business Administration is a distinct advantage. 
• Familiarity with the latest trends, technologies and methodologies in graphic design, production, etc 
• Basic Selling skills
• Business planning skills
• Training skills
• Supervisory/management skills
• Territory/market knowledge & development skills
• Principles & practices of promotions and merchandising
• Sales forecasting & targeting
• Competitor activities evaluation/reporting skills
• A Minimum 5 years FMCG Brand/Assistant Brand Management experience with demonstrated ability to drive brands growth in volume and value

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Key Responsibilities

Foundation

• Understand our products fully (their features; benefits; pricing and market competitiveness)
• Report to and work under our key distributor on a daily basis
• Map out routes and towns within the Kitale region under the distributor’s coverage
• Form relationships with the distributor’s sales team
• Understand the distributor’s way of working (minimum order quantities, pricing, order taking)

Activation

• Travel to customers daily across all the routes of the distributor in and around Kitale
• Familiarize customers with our products using physical samples and demonstrations
• Build a strong awareness of our brands amongst customers
• Build availability awareness (“always available at the distributor”)

Sales and after-sales

• Circulate physical copies of the distributor’s price lists for our products to all customers
• For new stockists:
• Encourage listing of our fast-moving products

For existing stockiest:

• Encourage repeat sales for any of our products already bought
• Convince customers to stock a wider range of our products
• Ensure products are visible to the end-customer on shelves or grills
• Provide marketing support such as Stallion display boards and Jikokoa stickers
• Proactively deal with any after-sales issues such as warranty registration and quality
• Ensure that the distributor has adequate stocks of our products across all their stores

Skill & Experience

• Must have done activations before minimum of 6 months
• MUST BE CURRENTLY RESIDING IN KITALE